Always cracked me up when my uncle would yell at whatever he was working on, "come on, you whore!"

Machines don't care about shit, they blindly do what they're told. Garbage in, garbage out.

Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?

Yes, I remember that one!

And Catherine the Great really liked horses...

Yeah, just yesterday I was reading a story about some contractor who was very good at his job took a different kind of job thinking it would be easy, then ended up fucking it up and making things worse, the moral of the story being "stick to what you're good at". I guess that's just the man trying to keep us down.

People love to bring up our vast expanses of land in these infrastructure comparisons, but that wasn't an insurmountable problem when we wanted transcontinental railroad, telegraph, telephone, etc...

Some people just like the taste of boot...

we expect software to stay up to date and keep getting better.

Well, we've been conditioned to expect that... Just because that's how it's been doesn't mean it has to stay that way. It made sense in the past, applications were limited by the hardware's technical capabilities, which kept improving over time - but we've reached a point where for the most part, the hardware is good enough to meet the needs of the software. That's not saying it won't continue to improve, but it's not the limiting factor it once was. At some point, at least in theory, a product should be able to be "finished", as in it has all the features it needs, possible exploits have been found and patched. Compare to buying tools - you don't need to buy a new hammer every two years, well, maybe you do if you abuse the shit out of it and break it, but you don't need to because of ongoing development in the techniques of building hammers.

Yes, but why male models?

It's not that they "took a lot of code from the GNU project", it's that "Linux" is the kernel, which is just the core of the OS, by itself it's not very useful. All the stuff around it that constitutes the rest of the operating system, like the command line and the vast majority of the commands you might run from there, are the GNU project. And I'm not even getting into desktop environments.

Thisthisthis. I have kids, I'm not at all worried about them getting shot, sure it's "possible" but it's just so improbable that it's not something I even think about. But holy shit, the way people drive in my neighborhood, I'll be a nervous wreck when my kids start walking or biking to the park by themselves...

But it's in a British accent, it automatically makes you smarter!

Romanes eunt domus